Formed after the collapse of the remnants of a supernova, a neutron star is generally smaller than the earth but extremely massive. Simple calculations show that the density of the star must be ...

Neutron stars are incredibly difficult to decipher. Experts can’t recreate their extreme conditions in a lab, and the closest one is 400 light-years away – too distant for det ...

Scientists have managed to narrow down the size of neutron stars with the aid of computer simulations. The calculations based on data from the LIGO and Virgo observatories suggest that the neutron ...

The results by Abbott and colleagues open a window into further computational studies of the matter of neutron stars. More ...

"A critical challenge in using neutron stars to detect dark matter is ensuring that the calculations scientists use, fully account for the unique environment of the star." Bell explains that while ...

A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology used Frontier to chart the isospin density of a neutron star over a range of ...

Scientists have dramatically revised the universe’s expiration date, suggesting everything from black holes to humans could ...

When two neutron stars merge, there are a few options available depending on their masses, their spins and the angle of the collision. According to theoretical calculations, the neutron stars ...

Particles of dark matter could interact with the neutrons in the core of neutron stars. If so, this should heat the stars, and new calculations suggest this might happen quickly enough that we ...

Watson says that the near-perfect sphere that the neutron star collision created in its explosive aftermath makes no sense. However, the calculations that the researchers have run shows that it ...

Instead of churning through the equation of state calculations, they took observational data on the mass and size of neutron stars and applied Bayesian statistics. This statistical method looks at ...

But our calculations clearly show that it is ... Sneppen also offers that, in the milliseconds during which the two neutron stars collided to form a giant neutron star, that newly minted mega ...